DEC H7822 power supply

Maciej W. Rozycki macro at orcam.me.uk
Mon May 2 17:51:11 CDT 2022


On Mon, 2 May 2022, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:

> Thankfully, it doesn't seem to have been there long and didn't get a chance
> to spread around the board.  Bizarrely this capacitor has it's legs pointing
> upwards and managed to leak while there are similar capacitors on the other
> board with their legs pointing downwards which don't seem to have leaked (yet?).

 Would the system have been possibly stored upside down sometime?

 These nasty caps do leak even while in storage (and even if never used, 
not even soldered ever, according to one source, a repair professional).

  Maciej


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